1974 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS SOFTCOVER

On the Poet and His Craft Selected Prose of Theodore

Literature & Fiction

ROETHKE, Theodore

Mills, Ralph J.

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

“There are only two passions in art; there are love and hate—with endless modifications.”—Theodore RoethkeAt his death, Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialogue, commentary, and fugitive miscellany. Within these notebooks, Roethke allowed his mind to rove freely, moment by moment, moving from the practical to the transcendental, from the halting to the sublime.Fellow poet and colleague David Wagoner distilled these notebooks—twelve linear feet of bookshelf—into an energetic, wise, and rollicking collection that shows Roethke to be one of the truly phenomenal creative sources in American poetry. From “A Psychic Janitor”:   I’m sick of fumbling, furtive, disorganized minds like bad lawyers trying to make too many points that this is an age of criticism: and these, mind you, tin-eared punks who couldn’t tell a poem from an old boot if a gun were put to their heads . . .Cover art by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63

Poetry

University of Washington Press

Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke

A selection of poems from the early works of the Pulitizer Prize winning poet

The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Selected and arranged by David Wagoner.

Straw for the Fire, from the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63.

DOUBLEDAY

United States

With Roethke's sudden, tragic death in 1963, a great poetic career was brought to an untimely end. "The Far Field" presents the most rewarding of his many volumes of poetry, both in brilliance of style and inner meaning. All of the poems have appeared previously in periodicals such as "The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, The New Yorker", and "The Partisan Review". Lightning Print on Demand Title.

The Far Field

Bantam Dell Pub Group

Collected Poems

Straw for the Fire

Anchor Books

A collection of poems about a world of mingled reality and fantasy, especially a variety of crazy creatures.

Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children

Roethke, Beatrice

Lushington, Stephen

Children's Books

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